All women of reproductive age (15 45 years) resident in the study area randomised by cluster of residence.
As we headed toward the first gathering, at the McLaughlin cluster of residence halls, students started running up to him, crying out, "I love you, I love you!
Intention to treat was by cluster of residence.
The objective was to design and validate a method to rapidly, accurately, and reliably categorize a clinic attendee's cluster of residence.
13 Women were randomised, according to their cluster of residence, to receive either weekly vitamin capsules, containing 25 000 IU (7500 μg) of vitamin A in soybean oil in a dark red opaque soft gel, or identical-looking placebo capsules containing only soybean oil.
Concurrent with the survey analyses, cumulative breast cancer incidence rates (2000 2004) were calculated for all KPNC female members aged 40 to 64 residing in MC and the ECCC comparison areas, defined by the same cluster of residence zip codes used to pick the survey samples.
Aside from clustering of residences in accordance with population density, spatial patterns were not apparent.
There is emerging work on community effects on health in India, which generally focuses on the level of the state, district, or cluster of villages of residence (Griffiths, Matthews, and Hinde 2002; Stephenson and Tsui 2002; Kravdal 2004; Parashar 2005; Dommaraju, Agadjanian, and Yabiku 2008).
DETAILS Less than 20 miles southeast of the Las Vegas Strip, this gated development is in the Lake Las Vegas resort area — a northern Italian-styled cluster of hotels, casinos, residences and golf courses surrounding a 320-acre artificial lake.
To explore the effect of clustering by area of residence in the association between exposure and mortality that is, residents in the same area usually share similar characteristics (socioeconomic status, health, access to services) and have similar environmental and air conditions we performed a frailty model to measure the role each area played.
